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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 295, NWS Little Rock, AR
NWS Little Rock, AR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2014, 6:03 AM CDT for Faulkner County, Lonoke County, Pulaski County, Arkansas. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 2014, 6:03 AM CDT (11:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2014, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Little Rock, AR
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Faulkner County, AR, Lonoke County, AR, Pulaski County, AR
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 267 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 415 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1167 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 9, 6:00 AM CDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 6:00 AM CDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 5:00 AM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR 500 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 ARZ003>007-012>016-021>025-030>034-037>047-052>057-062>069-101000- ARKANSAS-BAXTER-BOONE-BRADLEY-CALHOUN-CLARK-CLEBURNE-CLEVELAND- CONWAY-DALLAS-DESHA-DREW-FAULKNER-FULTON-GARLAND-GRANT-HOT SPRING- INDEPENDENCE-IZARD-JACKSON-JEFFERSON-JOHNSON-LINCOLN-LOGAN-LONOKE- MARION-MONROE-MONTGOMERY-NEWTON-OUACHITA-PERRY-PIKE-POLK-POPE- PRAIRIE-PULASKI-SALINE-SCOTT-SEARCY-SHARP-STONE-VAN BUREN-WHITE- WOODRUFF-YELL- 500 AM CDT SAT AUG 9 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A FRONT WAS STALLED ACROSS NORTHERN ARKANSAS. SURROUNDING THE FRONT...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. THE ATMOSPHERE IS LOADED WITH MOISTURE. THIS WILL MAKE STORMS MORE EFFICIENT RAIN MAKERS. HEAVY DOWNPOURS COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING. THERE IS AN OUTSIDE CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER. STRONG TO DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN CONCERN WITH STORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE AFOREMENTIONED FRONT WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH AT LEAST MONDAY. THIS WILL KEEP HIT AND MISS THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST. THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED RISK OF LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING AND SPOTTY SEVERE WEATHER. IT WILL FEEL LIKE SUMMER...WITH AFTERNOON HEAT INDEX VALUES FROM 100 TO 105 DEGREES IN ALL BUT THE OZARKS MOUNTAINS OF THE NORTHWEST. ON TUESDAY...IT APPEARS A STRONGER FRONT WILL SURGE INTO THE AREA FROM MISSOURI. SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER AIR WILL FOLLOW THE FRONT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... GIVEN ONLY ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS...SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. && VISIT NWS LITTLE ROCK ON THE WEB. GO TO HTTP://WEATHER.GOV AND CLICK ON CENTRAL ARKANSAS. 46
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 5:56 AM CDT, 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Little Rock, AR issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 7:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Garland, Hot Spring, Saline | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Clark, Hot Spring, Pike | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:56 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Pulaski | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Lonoke | 31 min |
| Aug 9, 11:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | LZK | Jackson, Woodruff | 10 days |
| Aug 9, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 2:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Logan, Pope, Yell | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson, Pope | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Perry, Pope, Van Buren, Yell | 41 min |
| Aug 9, 3:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Boone, Marion, Searcy | 29 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline and 2 more | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 4:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Boone, Marion, Newton, Searcy | 3 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | Conway, Perry, Van Buren | 29 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.